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Flip12 and myself in Copenhagen (he's the tall one). I've had the pleasure of meeting JR and playing alongside IniNew for a few years but this is my first transcontinental MSH hang :))

If you're getting numbness in the lower portion of your foot (ball of foot to your toes), then you'll probably need to do what I did: You'll need a heat gun for this... 1. Remove the laces from the boot 2. On the low setting, heat up the in-step sidewall (out-step as well... if needed) between eyelets 1 to 4 (near the toebox) by continually moving the heat gun in small circles about 6 inches away from the boot 3. When the material becomes soft and malleable, roll the sidewall up and outward 4. While still warm, place your foot inside the boot, and tuck in the tongue 5. Look along the eyelets to see that tongue is flush and flat across the foot 6. If not, take off the boot, and continue to roll it up and out until desired (re-heat the sidewall if necessary) 7. If you're still getting pressure after rolling the walls outward, then remove the red insoles if you haven't already... OR... use a thinner insole What the tongue should NOT look like (notice that you'll see the foot through the eyelets--the arrows in the diagrams below represent pressure when the laces are tied; yellow arrows represent excessive downward pressure since the tongue can't sit flat; green arrows represent pressure spread evenly across the flattened tongue): What it should look like: The tongue should sit flat and symmetrical across the foot, like so (green=flat & even pressure across foot, yellow=raised & excessive down-force on top of foot):

Great pic!!

Unless you specifically spend time during the training working on stopping, it isn't "just" going to happen. Stopping is one of the aspects between the 2 sports that is the most different. You really need to get to some public skates and practice stopping, the rink may be busy but I assume they have public sessions during evenings or weekends?

I'm in the same predicament. I'm 18 and played roller all the time when I was younger so skating on ice or roller was never that difficult for me. The only problem is that I can't stop, I'm basically the kid out of the second Mighty Ducks movie. I've been playing in a beer league for 2 seasons now but we don't get practice ice time and we only get a 3 minute warmup for games so you can't really do much more than skate and get a couple of shots on the goal. The rink that I play at is about 30 minutes away from my house but I'm also a college student so I don't get back to my house until the night before a game. The rink is also an extremely busy one so to find an open ice time to fit with my schedule is extremely difficult. My team did find out that the rink does give discounts on practice time for the beer leaguers so we will have a practice; we are only guaranteed one practice though just because of how busy the rink is. I can stop on inline skates but can't seem to get the hockey stop down on ice. The practice will end up being between 1-1 1/2 hrs and one teammate is having a friend come that has played his whole life to run us through drills. Should I expect to be able to learn this within that time period with his help or should I expect to have to work on it in some open skates if I can manage to attend them? I assume since I've got the general idea from inline I might only have to adjust the angle of my skates but that could prove to be difficult because of muscle memory.

Not a Warrior guy, but if Bauer had gone on sale on Amazon like Warrior did you better believe my collection would look like that.